Canton Coverup Part 432: Norfolk Chief Clerk Jim McDermott Kept Job Despite Drunken Car Crash That Nearly Killed Elderly Woman
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Norfolk Superior Court Chief Clerk Jim McDermott, the clerk assigned to the Karen Read murder case who has shown bias towards the Commonwealth on several occasions, nearly killed a woman in a drunken car crash in 2006, which has all but disappeared from public records. In November of 2006 McDermott was charged with OUI in Milford District Court after driving drunk and crashing into another car.
Those charges were upgraded to the much more serious charge of OUI causing serious injury.
However, you can’t see anything on the docket, other than that the charges were dismissed at the request of the Commonwealth.
Case was automatically closed and disposed on 05/05/2016 per AODC request. The case had a case-status of “Disposed for Statistical purposes” and case-disposition of “Pending/Undisposed”. Also the case met all criteria for auto close/dispose as outlined by the AODC which included 1) No future events. 2) No outstanding warrants. 3) No events scheduled in last 60 days. 4) No money outstanding. 5) All charges were disposed.
At the time of the crash McDermott was an assistant clerk in Norfolk Superior Court. He has since been promoted to Chief Clerk, as it seems like criminal conduct often leads to professional success in Norfolk County.
There was an article published in the Telegram and Gazette, detailing the horrific crash in which McDermott nearly killed 65 year old Vivian DeLucia in Bellingham.
As you can see, he was piss drunk at 7 PM the day before Thanksgiving when he hit her, and was talking on his cell phone when police arrived at the scene. Multiple witnesses saw him urinating in the middle of the street prior to police arriving. He failed two sobriety tests and was disoriented.
The victim, 65 year old Vivian Delucia, had 7 broken ribs, broken hips, a broken left radius, a fractured wrist, and a collapsed lung. She was on her way to her son’s house to deliver a turkey, which was in the backseat.
McDermott’s lawyer was Katie Rayburn, who is now a judge in Norfolk Superior Court. Rayburn was temporarily assigned to the Read case but never oversaw it. She was also the judge at the last hearing in my case (and was incredibly fair).
DeLucia’s daughter reached out to us and said that it was McDermott’s third DUI, and that it set in motion a series of events that would eventually kill her mother:
In 2006 Jim McDermott hit my mother while drunk driving. It was his 3rd offense but he worked for the court so they let him plead to a first offense. After the accident, he got out of his car, pissed on the side of his car, swore repeatedly and demanded someone call his cop buddy in town. My mother had 13 broken bones and a punctured lung. She was flown to Umass and never fully recovered. 4 years later she died of a neuroendocrine cancer which the doctors believed was from the over radiation she had from the trauma. My mother was a saint. McDermott is a piece of shit. Looks like they all like to drink and drive, and they don’t give a shit who they hurt.
She also says that the family sued McDermott:
We went to court to sue him and my mother got some money from his house equity. She never got to spend it, and it wasn’t much. The accident happened in Bellingham, he lived in Blackstone at the time. About a month ago I went on Google to look for articles and there weren’t any I could find so I’m guessing he had them wiped.
Court records show that DeLucia was awarded $200,000 in 2007.
I have reached out to her daughter for followup on the 2 alleged previous DUI’s, as well as the civil suit, but have not heard back as of publication. I will update when I have more information. The AODC (Administrative Office of District Courts) was the body that requested McDermott’s case be disposed from the public record in 2016.
McDermott has been very favorable to the Commonwealth throughout the Read trial. On April 12, 2023 Read filed a Rule 17 motion for Jennifer McCabe’s phone records after her 2:27 AM Google search was revealed. The motion was denied, but the SJC reversed Judge Cannone’s decision in November of 2023. Verizon had until December 15 to hand over the records.
However, the court never received the records before Read’s January 5 pretrial hearing. On that date Attorney Elizabeth Little addressed the court about this issue and McDermott told Cannone that he never called Verizon to request them. Instead of admonishing her clerk for not doing his job Cannone instead told the defense it was their fault for not contacting Verizon themselves. This prompted Read to famously mouth “we did” as she threw her hands up in disbelief. McDermott then asked the lawyers to go to a side bar.
The defense team does not have the ability to order Verizon to produce phone records. Only the court can do that, and the court’s representative Jim McDermott intentionally chose NOT to do that. He blatantly disregarded an order from the Commonwealth’s highest court because he just didn’t feel like doing what they ordered him to do.
McDermott was also in charge of picking who the alternate jurors would be. Keep in mind, he had access to juror’s notebooks throughout the trial, giving him insight to how they felt about the case. When he did the “random” drawing, which allegedly contained the numbers for every juror EXCEPT Cannone’s handpicked former cop foreman, he picked the numbers of the two jurors who he could see were making facial expressions of disbelief throughout the trial. You can see him do that at the 4:23:45 mark:
One of these jurors cried afterwards and wore a pink dress to court in protest during the second day of deliberations.
The defense did not get to see which numbers McDermott drew so they could verify it. They did not get to see that the 13 eligible jurors all had their numbers in the lottery. For all we knew there were 2 numbers in that box. All 3 jurors who were dismissed that day have confirmed that they would’ve voted not guilty on all charges.
I also had a run in with Jim McDermott last July when I called the courthouse and asked why a public document (my affidavit detailing how Matt McCabe’s brother threatened to murder me and bury my corpse at Cannone’s Cape Cod summer home) had been impounded. McDermott wouldn’t give me a straight answer for why the public document was impounded, and lied to me when he said that the document had never been uploaded to the public docket (it was there and then was removed, which I screenshotted with a time stamp to prove).
When I called him out on that lie he made up another lie that it was not up for two hours, so I realized we were going nowhere and changed the subject. I wanted to know why the other motion (opposing the gag order) wasn’t posted and I caught him in another lie when he said that “we just received it 10 minutes ago.” I informed him that it was sent to him on Friday but he intentionally chose not to post it, and he said that he had no received a hard copy.
At that moment he tried turning the tables on me and began asking me questions, particularly “what information do you have that it was received on Friday?” He was trying to get me to reveal my sources, which I don’t do, because he believed I was speaking with the defense.
But it was all moot anyway because he said a PDF of the motion wouldn’t be put up because it contains sensitive information. I have a copy of the motion and it does not contain any sensitive or private information. Nevertheless he told me that the court would be impounding it. That led to this telling interaction:
TB: Why is that being impounded?
Jim McDermott: Why?
TB: Yes.
Jim McDermott: Because.
TB: Because?
Jim McDermott: Yes.
TB: Because why?
Jim McDermott: The rules of impoundment. Rule 8 of the trial rules of impoundment.
TB: Why is this impounded but the other….
Jim McDermott: I don’t have to tell you that. It’s impounded.
After that he hung up on me.
Just to review how Jim McDermott’s story kept changing:
- “I just received the motion.”
- “It was impounded at the request of the defense.”
- “It was impounded by the judge who wasn’t working.”
- I’m not telling you why it was impounded. Because….reasons.
- Hangs up phone.
Jim McDermott, Chris Albert, and Paul O’Keefe all have one thing in common – they all drove drunk and either killed someone, or caused them serious bodily harm. If McDermott hadn’t hit Vivian DeLucia then she wouldn’t have received the treatment that led to the cancer that caused her death. It can be argued that these three men have either directly or indirectly killed 2 people, and collectively have served a grand total of 6 months in jail (all served by Albert). Here is what O’Keefe and McDermott did to innocent elderly people:
Now all 3 of them sit in judgement of Karen Read, accusing her of hitting John O’Keefe with her car, even though the evidence shows she did no such thing.
McDermott should’ve lost his job after this crash in 2006, but instead he was promoted. Just like Michael Lank. Just like Chris Albert was when got elected to the Select Board. They all drive drunk on the regular, and they all get it swept under the rug. Had the victim’s family not reached out to us we would have no idea he did this.
Now ask yourself, what haven’t we found out about Michael Morrissey and Beverly Cannone?
